__________________"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

I believe that this is what is termed a "Working visit" not a "State visit". There is a big difference in protocol terms.

True and this definitely look like a state visit!

__________________'Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.' C.S. Lewis God save Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, etc.! Vive le Très haut, très puissant et très excellent Prince, Louis XX, Par la grâce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre, Roi Très-chrétien!

A State visit would require a state welcome at the White House and a State dinner which would include diplomatic corps, congressional leaders and other invited guests. This visit only mentions a meeting with the President, and no state welcome or state dinner. Therefore this would be a working visit. It would also be extremely irregular for there to be a state visit by such a senior royal to the United States shortly before the President is expected to make a full state visit to the U.K. in the same month. President and Mrs. Obama will be going to the UK on a state visit from May 24th to the 26th. It's simply isn't done.

This visit by the Prince of Wales will be short on ceremony and more focused on the Prince's speech to Georgetown University on sustainable agriculture, and on an event to support military forces of the UK and US deployed overseas.

The Obama state visit to the UK will be their first to a European country. All previous visits to European countries by President Obama have been working visits, including his last visit to London when he and Mrs. Obama evidently made such a favourable impression on the Queen and Prince Philip.

__________________The Lion of Judah hath prevailed.

Ethiopia stretches her hands unto God (Quote from Psalm 68 which served as the Imperial Motto of the Ethiopian Empire)

"God and history shall remember your judgment." (Quote from Emperor Haile Selassie I's speech to the League of Nations to plead for assistance against the Italian Invasion, 1936.)

I believe that this is what is termed a "Working visit" not a "State visit". There is a big difference in protocol terms.

True and this definitely look like a state visit!

I definitely need to proofread! This was intended to be in agreement with Ethio, but I left out 'does not' between 'definitely' and 'look'! And I haven't even had a few pints!

__________________'Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.' C.S. Lewis God save Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, etc.! Vive le Très haut, très puissant et très excellent Prince, Louis XX, Par la grâce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre, Roi Très-chrétien!

Originally Posted by PeterAnyway, I don't think the Prince of Wales could possibly make a state visit. I think you have to be a head of state in order to do that.

You are correct, Sir, and it went right by me!

__________________'Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.' C.S. Lewis God save Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, etc.! Vive le Très haut, très puissant et très excellent Prince, Louis XX, Par la grâce de Dieu, Roi de France et de Navarre, Roi Très-chrétien!

Oh, so CBS made a fail then I guess.__________________"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana

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